Tag: Ni’lin
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IDF commander involved in shooting bound Palestinian evades jail term
27 January 2011 | YNet News Lieutenant-Colonol Omri Borberg breathed a sigh of relief Thursday after evading demotion, but residents of Naalin have no plans to let the sentence slide. Ashraf Abu Rahma, the Palestinian who was shot while bound and blindfolded, was extremely upset upon hearing the judges’ ruling. “The officer committed a crime,…
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Combined Systems Inc.: stop providing equipment that Israel misuses to kill and maim unarmed protesters
3 January 2010: Open letter to Combined Systems Inc written by Palestine solidarity groups From: Adalah-NY: The New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel (adalahny.org) CodePink: Women for Peace (www.codepink4peace.org) Jewish Voice for Peace (www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org) The US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation (www.endtheoccupation.org) Dear Combined Systems Inc., As US groups committed to justice…
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Freedom for Ibrahim, Hassan and Zaydoon: An interview with leaders of the Ni’lin Popular Committee Against the Wall
16 December 2010 | International Solidarity Movement On December 3, 2010, three leaders of the Ni’lin Popular Committee Against the Separation Wall were released from Israeli military prison: Ibrahim Amireh, coordinator of the Popular Committee; Hassan Mousa, spokesperson; and Zaydoon Srour. Israel wrongfully imprisoned them for 11 months in apparent retaliation for their role as…
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Civil resistance to bring down the Walls
1 November 2010 | Ayed Morrar, Huffington Post Budrus, a documentary film now debuting across the US, tells the story of a successful protest campaign by unarmed Palestinian civilians against Israel’s military occupation in my small West Bank village. Our struggle’s success and the consequent expansion of civil resistance to other West Bank communities may…
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Weekly Demonstrations: Friday, 29 October 2010
29 October, 2010 | International Solidarity Movement 22 people injured, 5 still in hospital, at increasingly violent An Nabi Saleh Demonstration by Henni Many shebab, two journalists and a girl were injured on Friday at the weekly demonstration in An Nabi Saleh. Villagers had employed a new strategy in response to the increasing violence of…